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#1 2014-10-29 16:44:20

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

"Feted calf" for fatted calf

The return of the prodigal son was a good enough occasion to kill the fatted calf and tie on the feast-bag. The festive angle might motivate those who think it was a feted calf. References, biblical and otherwise, of the bovine persuasion, can tend to head off in all directions:

Idol viewers — used to being feted on the fatted calves of golden young sex pistols — were hardly going to put up with the seedy Will Ferrell of Bourbon Street for long.
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But here are the feted hits. Images of the worship of golden calves are blended into some of these.

But the forty-eight year old owner whose birth name was Arnold Louis Leibovitz was no ordinary baby boomer in pursuit of the feted calf.
ebook

In the danse macabre of the feted calf of the Nakba, not one expression was there of regret
middle-east politics

How would such a girl react when she discovers she was never of any more value than a feted calf at best, a lowly cur mostly?
book review

There is, however, a political economy of attention, and in 2004 the blogunculus powered grime’s push from “sonic-innovation lunatic-fringe division feted calf” to “subcultural capital draft pick #1.”
Music review

From then Brandon establishes his own flavor, which is less Chevy Chase and more feted calf (in relation to the messianic aspect).
Movie review

The NOSE RING of MAMMONISM a Thing of Worship???? The nose ring of central currency the feted calf etc. take your pick.
incoherent hydrogen economy rant

we have somehow worshiped the college-housing gods in the correct way and proceed to slaughter a feted calf in thanks for this blessing
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